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I tend to regard thinking as being a pseudo-sensory process. Since verbal language is one form of sensory perception, some thinking can be done in that form. Thinking may also be done in written form, non-linguistic visual forms, musical form, non-musical non-verbal audio forms, tactile forms, etc.

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I tend to regard thinking as being a pseudo-sensory process. Since verbal language is one form of sensory perception, some thinking can be done in that form. Thinking may also be done in written form, non-linguistic visual forms, musical form, non-musical non-verbal audio forms, tactile forms, etc.

Then, would it not be likely that thinking is a sub-sensory process, at its root? Is thinking not our behavior on a level which may "hold" things sensory, so to speak and deal with them and fashion things from them (or not) as well as other imaginings, impulses, considerations, desires, etc?

Lorianne just said this:

Some interesting concepts in this piece though I admit much of it is over my head. I've often wondered if we do sometimes think without symbols. I believe I do in the spatial sense, but not in other areas.

What other areas? And what happens in your mind just before you arrive at the symbols you relate to the impetus your mind generates?